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I am using oil condenser with dry objective (Olympus UPlanApo 60/0.9) so I am oiling only the condenser. I am aware (or rather I expect) that I would get more light with proper objective with maximum aperture of something like 1.2 but the only objective we have with higher aperture than I´m using ri...

I've been using the condenser in a microscope prototype which I built on optical table so I am not limited by any screw in vertical position. Yet, even in case of the absolute contact of the condenser with the oiled slide, it seems to me that the image of the source made by the condenser on a froste...

Hi, does anybody please have any information regarding construction and parameters of Olympus darkfield condenser U-DCW? I bought one last year for our laboratory and I´ve been intensively trying to implement it in my microscope recently. I am frustrated that I can´t find just any information about ...